Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:45:34 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: Thomas Stratmann <thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail does not return Message-ID: <3B2DF7EE.BEBCD693@iowna.com> References: <4.2.2.20010618083131.02c109d0@192.168.0.12>
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As a side note: if this is the problem, sendmail will not block _forever_. It will eventually time out. I don't know what the actual value is, but it seems like 5 minutes or something, so it could easily seem like it's frozen. -Bill Mike Tancsa wrote: > > The place where I have come across this is on DNS timeouts. e.g. if you > have an IP address on an interface that has as its DNS a non reachable > server (for whatever reason), sendmail will block until it gets an answer > either way. Do all the PTR records for your IP addresses on the machine in > question return right away ? > > ---Mike > > At 02:31 PM 6/18/2001 +0200, Thomas Stratmann wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > > >have the weird problem that not anyone of sendmail, newaliases nor mailq > >returns (neither does any one of them return any error message or > >output). This includes the call of "sendmail -bd -q30m" out of /etc/rc > >(the same applies if I do this by hand), so I have to hit ^C to continue > >the boot process. It used to work fine the last time I booted (which > >means I did not see any errors, and sendmail was up) although I did not > >change any of my configuration in the mean time. -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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